Boxes Quotes - Page 28

• I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're just ticking off boxes. I think that after you see the movie, reading the book is a cool thing. I always say the movie's not meant to replace the book. That's ridiculous. I'm a huge fan of the book.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.

  Jim Shepard

  Real, Decision, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

  Biz Stone

  Art, New York, Jobs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Athlete, Cereal, Games

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Night, Games, Names

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

  Janet Evanovich

  Jobs, Fire, Years

  Interview with Brian Sherwin, www.bookbrowse.com. October 31, 2010.

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• It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."

  Mos Def

  Artist, Odds, People

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas City, and it was a lovely experience. You can watch old silent films on DVD or even on YouTube, but it was a different feeling watching her up on the big screen, seeing the film the way people saw it all those years ago.

  Laura Moriarty

  Book, Writing, Dvds

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. "Mom, I'm too young to dance," I told her. She kind of forced me, but I ended up loving it, and after the first lesson I came back and said, "Come on, Mom, I'll show you the box step." That introduced me not just to dancing but also to working with someone without having a goal.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mom, Class, Dancing

  "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.

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• You know, when you go into the store and buy a box of laundry detergent, and the price has gone up - you know, 50 cents because of regulations....And everything is costing more money, and we are killing our people like this....It's the evil government that is putting all these regulations on us so that we can't survive.

  Benjamin Carson

  Government, People, Evil

  Transcript of Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. January 15, 2016.

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• When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.

  Ronee Blakley

  Teacher, College, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

  Anna Journey

  Mean, Looks, Ends

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.

  John Dufresne

  Teaching, Writing, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Falling In Love, Smartphones, Ideas

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.

  Zhang Xin

  Japan, Years, Design

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

  Erin McKeown

  Writing, Choices, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Letting Go, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.

  Marcel Dzama

  Song, School, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

  Catherine Brady

  Ugly, Pages, Quotation Marks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I had long, black hair. I was going to school with makeup. Because I was trying to find my language, to scream to the world that I felt so closed in a box where I was living.

  Riccardo Tisci

  School, Makeup, Hair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To leave Italy at 17 without money and go to a country like England is very rare; Italians stay with the family until 30, 35. But I couldn't stand to live in this box anymore. I was getting bigger, and the box was getting smaller.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Country, England, Bigger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.

  Ethan Hawke

  Unique, Helping Someone, Ideas

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.

  Sam Hamill

  Nice, Bed, Would Be

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.

  Neil Jackson

  Yoga, Bags, Done

  "Sleepy Hollow’s Neil Jackson: Embracing Passion and Health". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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